Compare and Contrast Sartres Hell to Dantes
Compare and contrast Sartre’s hell to Dante’s. Make an educated opinion on whose hell is worse. The generally accepted hell is a realm where there are intense flames and the eternally damned will be punished, abused and tortured by the perpetual tormentor, the devil. People believe this design of hell as to be authentic because it has been taught by religion and it is defined by various religious texts. ... Hell is ruled by the Devil who is the personal supreme spirit of evil often represented in Jewish and Christian belief as the tempter of mankind. ... Hell has been illustrated is such a gruesome way in different religious manuscripts and hell in these manuscripts have similarities and grave differences. ... Many deem that hell was created as a way to prevent people from yielding into doing wrong. As time went on people develop their own view of hell as being a personal obstacle, hatred or fear of something. Hell can be a very despised and abhorrent situation or being and it varies from person to person as to what kind of hell is worse, the conventional or the personal. Jean Paul-Sartre’s No Exit depicts hell as being the company of three annoying people, each with their own faults and there is no escape (endless light and no blinking either). Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno portrays his version of hell in 9 different levels each level designated for certain type of sinners and perpetrators. In the play No Exit Jean Paul Sartre created hell to be a hotel room that is always lit. ... He has paralyzed eyelids, and he shows the sinners to their room of hell. ... He does not seem to care as much that he is in hell and in fact he kind of thought that it wasn’t too bad. ... They asked questions about what caused them to be brought to hell. ... Estelle commenced by saying that she does not know why she was there and it must have been a mistake for her being in hell. ... This existential idea that Hell is other people is the underlying theme of No Exit. In Dante’s The Inferno hell is shown as nine levels or circles of hell.